Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 10/15 IRISH-AMERICAN literature & culture presentations

    11:00 a.m. CHEM T114    Workshop in Irish-American literature

    2:15 p.m. AUST 216         Talk on the Irish Origins of American Popular Culture

    CHRIS DOWD is Professor and Chair of the English Department at University of New Haven. He has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Emerson College) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English (UConn). He is the author of The Construction of Irish Identity in American Literature (2011, Routledge) and The Irish and the Origins of American Popular Culture (2018, Routledge).

    Free and open to all but please contact mary.burke@uconn.edu to obtain ADVANCE READING and for accommodations.

    Sponsored by Irish Studies/Department of English

    For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu